Phantom: A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics Code for Astrophysics

By Daniel J. Price, J. Wurster, T. Tricco, C. Nixon, S. Toupin, A. Pettitt, Conrad Chan, D. Mentiplay, Guillaume Laibe, S. Glover and 17 more. Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, 2017

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Abstract We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular, and low-memory smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for astrophysical applications in three dimensions. The code has been developed with a focus on stellar, galactic, planetary, and high energy astrophysics, and has already been used widely for studies of accretion discs and turbulence, from the birth of planets to how black holes accrete. Here we describe and test the core algorithms as well as modules for magnetohydrodynamics, self-gravity, sink particles, dust–gas mixtures, H2 chemistry, physical viscosity, external forces including numerous galactic potentials, Lense–Thirring precession, Poynting–Robertson drag, and stochastic turbulent driving. Phantom is hereby made publicly available.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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• Gasoline2: a modern smoothed particle hydrodynamics code (2017, result): “We have verified that other strong mixing models, such as the artificial conduction of entropy used in PHANTOM (Price et al. 2017) produce similar results.”
• Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure (2022, background): “Examples include Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2018, 2022), Athena++ (Stone et al. 2020; Jiang 2021), Castro (Almgren et al. 2020), Dedalus (Burns et al. 2020), emcee (Foreman-Mackey et al. 2013), Flash-X (Dubey et al. 2022), GYRE (Townsend 4 & Teitler 2013; Townsend et al. 2018), MAESTROeX ”